kim@CS.TORONTO.EDU (Kimberlee Pietrzak-Smith) (07/07/90)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: IJCAI-91
TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
August 24 - 30, 1991, Sydney, Australia
The biennial IJCAI conferences are the major forums for the
international scientific exchange and presentation of AI research.
The next IJCAI conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, 24-30 August
1991. IJCAI-91 is sponsored by the International
Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Inc. (IJCAII), and
co-sponsored by the National Committee on Artificial Intelligence
and Expert Systems of the Australian Computer Society.
The conference technical program will include workshops, tutorials,
panels and invited talks, as well as tracks for paper and videotape
presentations.
1. Paper Track: Submission Requirements and Guidelines
Topics of Interest
Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously
unpublished research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited
to:
* Architectures and languages for AI (e.g. hardware and
software for building AI systems, real time and distributed AI)
* Automated reasoning (e.g. theorem proving, automatic
programming, planning and reasoning about action, search, truth
maintenance systems, constraint satisfaction)
* Cognitive modelling (e.g. user models, memory models)
* Connectionist and PDP models
* Knowledge representation (e.g. logics for knowledge, belief and
intention, nonmonotonic formalisms, complexity analysis, languages and
systems
for representing knowledge)
* Learning and knowledge acquisition
* Logic programming (e.g. semantics, deductive databases, relationships
to AI knowledge representation)
* Natural language (e.g. syntax, semantics, discourse, speech recognition
and understanding, natural language front ends)
* Philosophical foundations
* Principles of AI applications (e.g. intelligent CAI, design,
manufacturing, control)
* Qualitative reasoning and naive physics (e.g. temporal and spatial
reasoning, reasoning under uncertainty, model-based reasoning, diagnosis)
* Robotics (e.g. kinematics, manipulators, navigation, sensors, control)
* Social, economic and legal implications
* Vision (e.g. colour, shape, stereo, motion, object recognition,
active vision, model-based vision, vision architectures and hardware,
biological modelling)
Timetable
1. Submissions must be received by December 10, 1990.
Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened.
Authors should note that ordinary mail can sometimes be considerably
delayed and should take this into account when timing their
submissions.
Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or
designated author) soon after receipt.
2. Notification of acceptance or rejection: on or before March 20, 1991.
Notification will be sent to the first author (or designated author).
3. Edited version to be received by April 19, 1991.
General
Authors should submit five (5) copies of their papers in hard copy
form. All paper submissions should be to one of the Program Committee
CoChairs. Electronic or FAX submissions cannot be accepted.
Appearance
Papers should be printed on 8.5" x 11" or A4 sized paper,
double-spaced (i.e. no more than 28 lines per page), with 1.5" margins,
and with 12 point type. Letter quality print is required. (Normally, dot-matrix
printout will be unacceptable unless truly of letter quality. Exceptions will
be made for submissions from countries where high quality printers are not
widely available.)
Length
Papers should be a minimum of 2500 words (about nine pages double
spaced) and a maximum of 5500 words (about 18 pages double spaced),
including figures, tables and diagrams. Each full page of figures
takes the space of about 500 words.
Title Page
Each copy of the paper must include a title page, separate from the
body of the paper. This should contain:
1. Title of the paper.
2. Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all
authors.
3. An abstract of 100-200 words.
4. The area/subarea in which the paper should be reviewed.
5. A declaration that this paper is not currently under review for
a journal or another conference, nor will it be submitted during
IJCAI's review period. See IJCAI's policy on multiple submissions
below.
Policy on Multiple Submissions
IJCAI will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is
under review for a journal or another conference. Authors are also
expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during
IJCAI's review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and
conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations
with a limited audience.
Review Criteria
Papers will be subject to peer review. Selection criteria include
accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of
results and the quality of the presentation. The decision of the
program committee will be final and cannot be appealed. Papers
selected will be scheduled for presentation and will be printed in the
proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected
to present their papers at the conference.
Video Enhancement of Paper Presentations
In addition to an oral presentation, the authors of accepted papers
may, if they so choose, submit a videotape which will be presented in the
video track session. These tapes will not be refereed but only reviewed for the
quality of the presentation. They are intended to provide additional support to
the written and oral presentation such as demonstrations, illustrations or
applications. For details concerning tape format, see the video track
description below. Reviewing criteria do not apply to these tapes. Only the
submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Authors wishing to augment their paper
presentation with a video should submit a tape only after their paper
has been accepted. All such arrangements should be made with the video track
chair.
Distinguished Paper Awards
The Program Committee will distinguish one or more papers of
exceptional quality for special awards. This decision will in no way depend on
whether the authors choose to enhance their paper with a video presentation.
2. Videotape Track: Submission Requirements and Guidelines
This track is reserved for displaying interesting research on applications
to real-world problems arising in industrial, commercial, government, space and
educational arenas. It is designed to demonstrate the current levels of
usefulness of AI tools, techniques and methods.
Authors should submit one copy of a videotape of 15 minutes maximum
duration, accompanied by a submission letter that includes:
* Title,
* Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all
authors,
* Tape format (indicate one of NTSC, PAL or SECAM; and one of VHS or .75"
U-matic),
* Duration of tape in minutes,
* Three copies of an abstract of one to two pages in length, containing the
title of the video, and full names and addresses of the authors,
* Author's permission to copy tape for review purposes.
The timetable and conditions for submission, notification of acceptance or
rejection, and receipt of final version are the same as for the paper
track. See above for details.
All tape submisssions must be made to the Videotape Track Chair.
Tapes cannot be returned; authors should retain extra copies for making
revisions. All submissions will be converted to NTSC format before review.
Tapes will be reviewed and selected for presentation during the
conference. Abstracts of accepted videos will appear
in the conference proceedings. The following criteria will guide
the selection:
* Level of interest to the conference audience
* Clarity of goals, methods and results
* Presentation quality (including audio, video and pace).
Preference will be given to applications that show a high level of
maturity. Tapes that are deemed to be advertising commercial products,
propaganda, purely expository materials, merely taped lectures or
other material not of scientific or technical value will be rejected.
3. Panels, Tutorials, Workshops
The IJCAI-91 technical program will include panels, tutorials and
workshops, for which separate calls for proposals have been issued. For
details about organizing one of these, contact the appropriate chair in
the following list.
4. IJCAI-91 Conference Contacts
Program CoChairs
Paper submissions, reviewing, invited talks, awards and all
matters related to the technical program:
Prof. John Mylopoulos
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A4
CANADA
Tel: (+1-416)978-5379
Fax: (+1-416)978-1455
email: ijcai@cs.toronto.edu
Prof. Ray Reiter
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A4
CANADA
Tel: (+1-416)978-5379
Fax: (+1-416)978-1455
email: ijcai@cs.toronto.edu
Videotape Track Chair
Videotape submissions, editing and scheduling of video presentations:
Dr. Alain Rappaport
Neuron Data
444 High Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
USA
Tel: (+1-415)321-4488
Fax: (+1-415)321-3728
email: atr@ml.ri.cmu.edu
Tutorial Chair
Enquiries about tutorial presentations:
Dr. Martha Pollack
Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA
Tel: (+1-415)859-2037
Fax: (+1-415)326-5512
email: pollack@ai.sri.com
Workshop Chair
Enquiries about workshop presentations and scheduling:
Dr. Joe Katz
MITRE Corporation
MS-K318
Burlington Rd.
Bedford, MA 01730
USA
Tel: (+1-617)271-8899
Fax: (+1-617)271-2423
email: katz@mbunix.mitre.org
Panel Chair
Enquiries about panels:
Dr. Peter F. Patel-Schneider
AT&T Bell Labs
600 Mountain Ave.
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
USA
Tel: (+1-201)582-3399
Fax: (+1-201)582-5192
email: pfps@research.att.com
Australian National Committee Secretariat
For enquiries about registration, accommodation and other local
arrangements:
Ms. Beverley Parrott
IJCAI-91
Parrish Conference Organizers
PO Box 787
Potts Point NSW 2011
AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61-2)357-2600
Fax: (+61-2)357-2950
IJCAI-91 Exhibition Secretariat
For enquiries concerning the exhibition:
Ms. Julia Jeffrey
Jeffrey Enterprises
104 Falcon Street
Crows Nest NSW 2065
AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61-2)954-0842
Fax: (+61-2)925-0735
Australian National Committee Chair
For enquiries about general Australian arrangements:
Prof. Michael A. McRobbie
Centre for Information Science Research
I Block
Australian National University
GPO Box 4
Canberra ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61 6)249-2035
Fax: (+61-6)249-0747
email: mam@arp.anu.oz.au
Conference Chair
For other general conference related matters:
Prof. Barbara J. Grosz
Aiken Computation Lab 20
Harvard University
33 Oxford Street
Cambridge MA 02138, USA
Tel: (+1-617)495-3673
Fax: (+1-617)495-9837
email: grosz@endor.harvard.edu
IJCAII and IJCAI-91 Secretary-Treasurer
Dr. Donald E. Walker
Bellcore, MRE 2A379
445 South Street, Box 1910
Morristown, NJ 07960-1910
USA
Tel: (+1-201)829-4312
Fax: (+1-201)455-1931
email: walker@flash.bellcore.comkim@CS.TORONTO.EDU (Kimberlee Pietrzak-Smith) (08/09/90)
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: IJCAI-91
TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
August 24 - 30, 1991, Sydney, Australia
The biennial IJCAI conferences are the major forums for the
international scientific exchange and presentation of AI research.
The next IJCAI conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, 24-30 August
1991. IJCAI-91 is sponsored by the International
Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Inc. (IJCAII), and
co-sponsored by the National Committee on Artificial Intelligence
and Expert Systems of the Australian Computer Society.
The conference technical program will include workshops, tutorials,
panels and invited talks, as well as tracks for paper and videotape
presentations.
1. Paper Track: Submission Requirements and Guidelines
1.1 Topics of Interest
Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously
unpublished research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited
to:
* Architectures and languages for AI (e.g. hardware and
software for building AI systems, real time and distributed AI)
* Automated reasoning (e.g. theorem proving, automatic
programming, planning and reasoning about action, search, truth
maintenance systems, constraint satisfaction)
* Cognitive modelling (e.g. user models, memory models)
* Connectionist and PDP models
* Knowledge representation (e.g. logics for knowledge, belief and
intention, nonmonotonic formalisms, complexity analysis, languages and systems
for representing knowledge)
* Learning and knowledge acquisition
* Logic programming (e.g. semantics, deductive databases, relationships
to AI knowledge representation)
* Natural language (e.g. syntax, semantics, discourse, speech recognition
and understanding, natural language front ends)
* Philosophical foundations
* Principles of AI applications (e.g. intelligent CAI, design,
manufacturing, control)
* Qualitative reasoning and naive physics (e.g. temporal and spatial
reasoning, reasoning under uncertainty, model-based reasoning, diagnosis)
* Robotics (e.g. kinematics, manipulators, navigation, sensors, control)
* Social, economic and legal implications
* Vision (e.g. colour, shape, stereo, motion, object recognition,
active vision, model-based vision, vision architectures and hardware,
biological modelling)
1.2 Timetable
1. Submissions must be received by December 10, 1990.
Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened.
Authors should note that ordinary mail can sometimes be considerably
delayed and should take this into account when timing their
submissions.
Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or
designated author) soon after receipt.
2. Notification of acceptance or rejection: on or before March 20, 1991.
Notification will be sent to the first author (or designated author).
3. Edited version to be received by April 19, 1991.
1.3 General
Authors should submit five (5) copies of their papers in hard copy
form. All paper submissions should be to one of the Program Committee
CoChairs. Electronic or FAX submissions cannot be accepted.
1.4 Appearance
Papers should be printed on 8.5" x 11" or A4 sized paper,
double-spaced (i.e. no more than 28 lines per page), with 1.5" margins,
and with 12 point type. Letter quality print is required. (Normally, dot-matrix
printout will be unacceptable unless truly of letter quality. Exceptions will
be made for submissions from countries where high quality printers are not
widely available.)
1.5 Length
Papers should be a minimum of 2500 words (about nine pages double
spaced) and a maximum of 5500 words (about 18 pages double spaced),
including figures, tables and diagrams. Each full page of figures
takes the space of about 500 words.
1.6 Title Page
Each copy of the paper must include a title page, separate from the
body of the paper. This should contain:
1. Title of the paper.
2. Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all
authors.
3. An abstract of 100-200 words.
4. The area/subarea in which the paper should be reviewed.
5. A declaration that this paper is not currently under review for
a journal or another conference, nor will it be submitted during
IJCAI's review period. See IJCAI's policy on multiple submissions
below.
1.7 Policy on Multiple Submissions
IJCAI will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is
under review for a journal or another conference. Authors are also
expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during
IJCAI's review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and
conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations
with a limited audience.
1.8 Review Criteria
Papers will be subject to peer review. Selection criteria include
accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of
results and the quality of the presentation. The decision of the
program committee will be final and cannot be appealed. Papers
selected will be scheduled for presentation and will be printed in the
proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected
to present their papers at the conference.
1.9 Video Enhancement of Paper Presentations
In addition to an oral presentation, the authors of accepted papers
may, if they so choose, submit a videotape which will be presented in the
video track session. These tapes will not be refereed but only reviewed for the
quality of the presentation. They are intended to provide additional support to
the written and oral presentation such as demonstrations, illustrations or
applications. For details concerning tape format, see the video track
description below. Reviewing criteria do not apply to these tapes. Only the
submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Authors wishing to augment their paper
presentation with a video should submit a tape only after their paper
has been accepted. All such arrangements should be made with the video track
chair.
1.10 Distinguished Paper Awards
The Program Committee will distinguish one or more papers of
exceptional quality for special awards. This decision will in no way depend on
whether the authors choose to enhance their paper with a video presentation.
2. Videotape Track: Submission Requirements and Guidelines
This track is reserved for displaying interesting research on applications
to real-world problems arising in industrial, commercial, government, space and
educational arenas. It is designed to demonstrate the current levels of
usefulness of AI tools, techniques and methods.
Authors should submit one copy of a videotape of 15 minutes maximum
duration, accompanied by a submission letter that includes:
* Title,
* Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all
authors,
* Tape format (indicate one of NTSC, PAL or SECAM; and one of VHS or .75"
U-matic),
* Duration of tape in minutes,
* Three copies of an abstract of one to two pages in length, containing the
title of the video, and full names and addresses of the authors,
* Author's permission to copy tape for review purposes.
The timetable and conditions for submission, notification of acceptance or
rejection, and receipt of final version are the same as for the paper
track. See above for details.
All tape submisssions must be made to the Videotape Track Chair.
Tapes cannot be returned; authors should retain extra copies for making
revisions. All submissions will be converted to NTSC format before review.
Tapes will be reviewed and selected for presentation during the
conference. Abstracts of accepted videos will appear
in the conference proceedings. The following criteria will guide
the selection:
* Level of interest to the conference audience
* Clarity of goals, methods and results
* Presentation quality (including audio, video and pace).
Preference will be given to applications that show a high level of
maturity. Tapes that are deemed to be advertising commercial products,
propaganda, purely expository materials, merely taped lectures or
other material not of scientific or technical value will be rejected.
3. Panels, Tutorials, Workshops
The IJCAI-91 technical program will include panels, tutorials and
workshops, for which separate calls for proposals have been issued. For
details about organizing one of these, contact the appropriate chair in
the following list.
4. IJCAI-91 Conference Contacts
4.1 Program CoChairs
Paper submissions, reviewing, invited talks, awards and all
matters related to the technical program:
Prof. John Mylopoulos
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A4
CANADA
Tel: (+1-416)978-5379
Fax: (+1-416)978-1455
email: ijcai@cs.toronto.edu
Prof. Ray Reiter
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A4
CANADA
Tel: (+1-416)978-5379
Fax: (+1-416)978-1455
email: ijcai@cs.toronto.edu
4.2 Videotape Track Chair
Videotape submissions, editing and scheduling of video presentations:
Dr. Alain Rappaport
Neuron Data
444 High Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
USA
Tel: (+1-415)321-4488
Fax: (+1-415)321-3728
email: atr@ml.ri.cmu.edu
4.3 Tutorial Chair
Enquiries about tutorial presentations:
Dr. Martha Pollack
Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA
Tel: (+1-415)859-2037
Fax: (+1-415)326-5512
email: pollack@ai.sri.com
4.4 Workshop Chair
Enquiries about workshop presentations and scheduling:
Dr. Joe Katz
MITRE Corporation
MS-K318
Burlington Rd.
Bedford, MA 01730
USA
Tel: (+1-617)271-8899
Fax: (+1-617)271-2423
email: katz@mbunix.mitre.org
4.5 Panel Chair
Enquiries about panels:
Dr. Peter F. Patel-Schneider
AT&T Bell Labs
600 Mountain Ave.
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
USA
Tel: (+1-201)582-3399
Fax: (+1-201)582-5192
email: pfps@research.att.com
4.6 Australian National Committee Secretariat
For enquiries about registration, accommodation and other local
arrangements:
Ms. Beverley Parrott
IJCAI-91
Parrish Conference Organizers
PO Box 787
Potts Point NSW 2011
AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61-2)357-2600
Fax: (+61-2)357-2950
4.7 IJCAI-91 Exhibition Secretariat
For enquiries concerning the exhibition:
Ms. Julia Jeffrey
Jeffrey Enterprises
104 Falcon Street
Crows Nest NSW 2065
AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61-2)954-0842
Fax: (+61-2)925-0735
4.8 Australian National Committee Chair
For enquiries about general Australian arrangements:
Prof. Michael A. McRobbie
Centre for Information Science Research
I Block
Australian National University
GPO Box 4
Canberra ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61 6)249-2035
Fax: (+61-6)249-0747
email: mam@arp.anu.oz.au
4.9 Conference Chair
For other general conference related matters:
Prof. Barbara J. Grosz
Aiken Computation Lab 20
Harvard University
33 Oxford Street
Cambridge MA 02138, USA
Tel: (+1-617)495-3673
Fax: (+1-617)495-9837
email: grosz@endor.harvard.edu
4.10 IJCAII and IJCAI-91 Secretary-Treasurer
Dr. Donald E. Walker
Bellcore, MRE 2A379
445 South Street, Box 1910
Morristown, NJ 07960-1910
USA
Tel: (+1-201)829-4312
Fax: (+1-201)455-1931
email: walker@flash.bellcore.com